The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that the impact likelihood had dropped even further and was now just 0.16%. ☄️ The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! — 'That's impact probability zero folks!' Earth safe from 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

The space agency said there is currently a 1.7 percent chance the asteroid could “impact” the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will continue to examine the asteroid ...

NASA said its James Webb Space Telescope will observe the asteroid in March 2025 “to better assess the asteroid’s size.” ...

Called 2024 YR4, the near-Earth asteroid initially carried a 1% chance of hitting land when NASA and the European Space Agency first announced its existence last month. Protocols require the ...

Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has compared asteroid 2024 YR4 to 'a bullet zeroing in on Earth from deep space'. 'It's about 500 times more powerful than the biggest bomb we exploded ...

Researchers initially identify certain characteristics of the asteroid's orbit with a higher degree of certainty than others, Live Science's sister site Space.com reported. However, as researchers ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

As the risk corridor narrows for asteroid 2024 YR4, the possibility of a collision with Earth in 2032 have increased.… NASA has upped the chances to 3.1 percent, while the European Space Agency ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...